Recently, Redbook editor in chief Stacy Morrison was searching for the perfect shearling coat. “I did a quick lap of some of the stores here, but if I’m going to spend that much money on a coat, I want the coat to blow my mind,� she said the other day by phone. “So for maybe two or four nigh...

On Friday, February 20, the last day of Fashion Week, designer Thakoon Panichgul of the label Thakoon collapsed into an egg-shaped chair at Bergdorf Goodman's white-tableclothed seventh-floor restaurant for tea with the Daily Transom. The fashion industry cafeteria of sorts had been offering an elab...

On Friday, February 20, the last day of Fashion Week, designer Thakoon Panichgul of the label Thakoon collapsed into an egg-shaped chair at Bergdorf Goodman's white-tableclothed seventh-floor restaurant for tea with the Daily Transom. The fashion industry cafeteria of sorts had been offering an elab...

At this afternoon’s Isaac Mizrahi show at the New York Public Library, the Daily Transom’s seat several rows behind Anna Wintour allowed us to observe a now-familiar pattern: Ms. Wintour arrived within minutes of the designated start time—as she always does, despite the fact that the show woul...

Yesterday, before the packed Phillip Lim show at the Tents, we caught up with Ken Downing, dapper man-about-town and senior VP and women’s fashion director at Neiman Marcus, to discuss the neon-hued '80s nostalgia which has seized designers like Alexander Wang, Michael Kors, Rodarte and Marc Jacob...

Italian denim brand Diesel—perhaps sensing that this is hardly the time for a celeb-infested store opening party with sponsored cocktails and a surprise performance by Kanye West or M.I.A.—is celebrating its massive new Diesel Planet flagship (all 20,000 square feet of it!) at 54th and 5th with ...

‘I think of it as a new hall, though technically speaking, it is a renovation of Alice Tully Hall, which as you know was quite beloved by New York as well,â€� said Jane Moss, VP of programming at Lincoln Center, who was on the phone to discuss the new edifice rising after an 18-month face-lift. â€...

While we’re home convalescing with a cold compress after LL Cool J (been a while since we were breathing that hard …), dear ole Dad’s favorite finely aged country crooner, Emmylou Harris , plays at the Beacon Theatre , singing of being screwed over by her lovers and the patina of sadness cover...

Brittle 30-something Caucasian women swoon as LL Cool J —’90s rapper who penned the definitive soundtrack to suburban middle-school dances’ awkward mating rituals (bonus dirty excerpt: It’s our first time together and I’m feeling kinda horny; conventional methods of makin’ love kinda bor...

Does anyone else feel slightly bad for that adorably bald Lloyd Blankfein of Goldman Sachs (if not his banker cohorts, who look like middle-aged versions of the lacrosse players we lusted after in college …), who has to trudge down to Washington every other week on a downsized corporate jet (whoos...